Monday Ménage: Leaders and Politicians
Not Always The Same We cannot, of course, expect every leader to possess the wisdom of Lincoln or Mandela’s largeness of soul. But when we think about what questions might be most useful…
Monday Ménage: That Special Breed
Russell. Thompson. Pevernagie. The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Laughing At Politicians
Barry. Rogers. Truman. Bierce. The question is why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing on national television that you have the…
Monday Ménage: Brainless Swine. Visionary Hysteria. Profit In The Republic.
Thompson. Pevernagie. Mencken. The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back…
Monday Ménage: Citizens, Prejudices, and The Imbecile
Naskar. Heinlein. Brecht. If a criminal becomes a politician, it's the fault of the citizens, not the system, and if a system keeps failing to oust the criminals from politics, that too…
Monday Ménage: Edition Demagogue, Green Grass, and The Poor Bastards
Aristophanes. Pevernagie. Thompson. You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful…
Monday Ménage: Edition Animals, Comedians, Politicians
Butler. Rogers. Carlin. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler. Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Cherish Freedom, Submissive People, Moving Offshore
Albright. Berry. Schweizer. We cannot, of course, expect every leader to possess the wisdom of Lincoln or Mandela’s largeness of soul. But when we think about what questions might be most useful to…
Monday Ménage: Edition Kissing, Easily Aroused, and All Puffed Up
Truman. Russell. Nietzsche. The President has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues. The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make…
Monday Ménage: Edition Conservatives, Resentment, Erroneous Assumptions
Carlin. Russell. Postman. Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Givers and Takers
Dhliwayo. Xinindlu. Malloy. True leaders are givers, not takers; builders, not destroyers; doers, not talkers; encouragers, not flatterers; lovers, not haters; warriors, not worriers; forgivers, not shamers; performers, not complainers; achievers, not quitters;…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and Demonic People
Murat ildan. Vanderbuilt. Muscio. One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians Pundits And Arrogance
Wylie. de Maupassant. Trotsky. The first tool of authoritarian regimes is always informational control—both in the gathering of information on the public through surveillance and the filtration of information to the public through…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and The Political Machine
Martini. Floyd. La Follette. We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of plausible deniability replace truth, and claims that politicians…
Left Where? Why?
Rising from the tradgedy that is America, we see today few willing to find solutions but many quite willing to find blame. Much of the blame for the current state of America - leveled…
Monday Ménage
Robert B Reich. Gary J Floyd. DJ Kyos. Americans have clung to the meritocratic tautology that individuals are paid what they’re worth in the market, without examining changes in the legal and political…
Monday Ménage
Albert Einstein. George Orwell. Will Rogers. For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and…
Personal Note
Return To The Trenches
When election results on 6 November 2024 showed Donald Trump had won the Presidency, for me it was like getting punched in the face, repeatedly. I mean – repeatedly!
My sarcasm of the earlier ‘Good Luck, America’ is obvious; so at that point I decided to take a break, to get away from our new reality. Didn’t think the break would be this long.
And now, recent sequence of events demand I get my ass back in the fight. More… posted 2025.08.31
Politics & Policy
Constitutional America???
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Dead By Cop
Black, Native, Latino Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans
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Hey, US Ed, History Calls
The invasion by Europeans of the ‘New World’ saw the First Nations population go from around 15 million in 1500 to just over 200,000 in 1900. (U.S. only. Does Not include data on First Nations Peoples of Canada).
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Project 2025 & The Military
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Shrewd, SlipUp, Or Just Plain Stupid …
“I think she’s a disgraceful person, you know, I think she’s a disgraceful person, a loser. It’s amazing the way people vote. I know it’s people from her area, maybe of the world, I don’t know. They got here and they vote her in. I don’t know. It’s hard to believe. But I think she’s a disgusting person.”
That’s the President of the United States of America making remarks about seated member of the House, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), to reporters in the Oval Office.
“I think if [Thomas] Jefferson was alive today, he’d be hand-in-hand with AOC. That is the liberal, kind of milquetoast, whitewashed Christianity of the left. The Joe Biden Christianity. It has no teeth. It has no strength. It has no endurance.” Taylor Marshall – American traditionalist Catholic writer and a former Episcopal Church priest. He converted to Catholicism and became an activist of Conservative-Right Catholicism. Full story at Media Matters
‘If Republicans don’t block voting rights, Democrats will allow “child molesters” and “illegal aliens” to vote and Republicans will be out of power for years’. Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas. Same Ted Cruz who voted to force changing legal votes of Electoral College. Went so far as to incite an insurrection.
Simple Reminder
Stuff…
News Disorder, It’s A Thing I’m always tired because at night I can’t sleep unless I watch the news. Then I watch the news and can’t sleep.
Your Tingly Leaving You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.
Don’t Wanna Know It is possible to lead a cow upstairs – but – not downstairs. Question: Why in the hell would you want to take a cow upstairs? Wait, no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
Kane’s Clinic
Wheel In The Sky
Journey From their album, Infinity – the first album with Steve Perry on lead vocals. Released January 1978.
Going Back Home
Sherman Robertson From the 1998 Rockin’ Blues album (CD) Going Back Home
Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 Soulful Blues album Stickin’ To My Guns
Dreams
Brandi Carlile * From WFUV LIVE CD (FM 90.7 in the Greater New York City area). Originally on her 2009 folk-rock album Give Up The Ghost.
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye Originally On His Landmark 1971 Album What’s Going On
Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
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